Am 25.04.2016 um 12:23 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:17:52PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >> we are mainly concerned about runtime issues with OpenJDK 7. Libreoffice >> declares dependencies on default-jre | openjdk-7-jre, so I believe it >> should be fine. I am aware of build failures with OpenJDK 7 and I think >> that can't be avoided unless we want to redo the whole OpenJDK 7 >> transition. [1] >> >> I think in those cases it is reasonable to recommend to manually change >> build dependencies back to OpenJDK 6 because rebuilding a package does > > Only if it stays (unsupported) and it's not actually removed from the archive.. We don't intend to remove OpenJDK 6 but it will receive no further security updates. >> not pose a security risk and should never happen on production systems >> anyway. I will update https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Wheezy and add an >> example today. > > You miss the case where you want (as it's LTS) provide security updates. So > it needs to be buildable. Or you declare all Java-using things unsupported > in wheezy-LTS. If a Java package needs a security update, we will ensure that it will be fixed in a timely manner which includes fixing possible build failures. All Java packages are supported. Regards, Markus
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